I'm 39 year old Married housewife/mom in Milwaukie, Oregon.  Hubby and I have 3 kids living with us and 3 more not living with us.  2 of the 6 are mine other 4 are his.  I gained weight shortly after marrying my first husband who turned out to be very abusive since I've been away from him I've tried many times to lose it biggest loses were on McDougall's Vegetarian diet and on Atkins on both I lost 100lbs.  I gained back all of it when I quit the vegetarian diet and alot of it when I quit atkins.  I stayed put at 345 for ever then I started water arobics and lost down to 326 after about 7 months I quit losing.  I've just started losing again after upping my excercise routine.  I'm down to 264 and my goal is to get to 130lbs.